On 9/13/2013 2:50 AM, Peter wrote:
On 13/09/13 01:45, John Andersen wrote:> On 9/12/2013 4:42 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Where does this thing get its battery state measurements?
The widget in the taskbar as well as the plasma thingie on the desktop indicate 32% while the battery level in KSysGuard indicates 68%.
Why would two utilities from the same release of KDE differ about the state of the same battery?
For the record, the KSysGuard value agrees more closely with the push-button LDE lights on the battery itself.
I've noticed a change which may have come about with KDE 4.11.1 (I'm on the 4.11 Release repo in oS 12.3) but I can't be sure. Having just acquired a secondhand laptop pre-loaded with Ubuntu I noted the battery does not charge to full capacity and would typically start at around two-thirds before draining. When I installed openSUSE and KDE with 4.11 it showed a similar reading, but the last couple of times I've unplugged (having just updated to 4.11.1 a week ago), it starts at a full 100%. I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean my battery has miraculously relearned how to recover full performance, just that either by accident or by design a developer has modified how the state gets shown.
Cheers, Peter
Oh, and another thing. Upon boot up after a "full charge", (that is, charged till the charging circuit gave and called it full) if the battery does not approach some substantial percentage of its designed capacity, you will get a pop-up notification that the battery needs replacement. The best mine achieves these days is about 47% of design capacity. I get the warning every re-boot. Seems not to re-occur on a resume, it has to be a boot from off. The good part of all this is the batteries for older lap tops are pretty cheap these days, unless your laptop is really old. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org